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Mosque Planner Says Opposition Goes 'Beyond Islamophobia'

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Thomas Catan

Updated Aug. 23, 2010 12:44 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON—A leader of a planned Muslim community center near Manhattan's Ground Zero compared opposition to the project to the persecution of Jews, in comments that could add to the controversy over the center's proposed site.

"We are deeply concerned, because this is like a metastasized antisemitism," said Daisy Khan, who is spearheading the project with her husband, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf. "It's beyond...

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